“It was big. We were 0-2. We just needed a win to get us jump started. Hopefully we can just roll off of it,” he said.

Monday’s game was never in doubt, with Truman scoring the game’s first 21 points. They took their first 30-point lead on a Matt Patterson three that made it 33-3 with 7:50 left in the first half.

Patterson finished with seven points and seven assists in a game-high 23 minutes.

“He’s really earned the right,” Woodley said of the senior. “He’s practiced that way for two years.”

The Bulldogs benefited from the fact CCCB simply couldn’t keep up, consistently using an extra pass to find a wide-open shooter. Truman shot 58 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes, including 53 percent from three-point range, all while making wholesale changes of five players at a time.

In contrast, CCCB had only two available players on its bench. Four players were scratched with injuries.

Isaac Gardner put on a clinic from beyond the arc, drilling six threes in the first half, accounting for all of his 18 points.

When they did miss, they cleaned up on the glass, outrebounding Central 30-12 in the opening 20.

And then there was the ball distribution, with nine of Truman’s 11 players recording at least one assist.

“That’s almost an unheard of stat,” Woodley said of the assist-to-field goal ratio. “I don’t care who you’re playing.”